Washington.– The Supreme Court of the United States ended this Friday with the Joe Biden government’s plan to cancel the student debt of millions of college students.
In a decision by the court’s conservative majority, and opposed by the three progressive justices, the court found that the Biden Administration had no right to approve such measures.
The plan had been proposed by the Democratic president to alleviate some of the economic hardship caused by the covid-19 pandemic, but was challenged by attorneys general from several Republican-governed states.
In a decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, The magistrates agree with the state of Missouri, which argued that the debt cancellation measure would affect the income of a state entity that manages student loans.
In this sense, Roberts explained that US law allows the Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, “to make modest adjustments and additions to existing regulations (…), not to transform them.”
These modifications, according to Roberts, created “a fundamentally different new plan for debt forgiveness.”
In a dissenting opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan and seconded by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the three progressive justices argue that “in all respects, the court today exceeds its proper and limited role in the Government of our nation.” ».
At the end of August of the year, Biden announced that he was going to forgive part of the debt that millions of university students contracted with the federal Administration in order to pay for their studies.
His opponents had argued that the plan would cost the public purse $400 billion over the next 30 years.
